Review of "Step into Sky"

If you would like to read a review of my haiku book "Step Into Sky" you can go to http://happano.org/pages/chapbook/StepReview-E.html. The review is from the Magazine Aneta Nepo, and the supportive words of the reviewer were very important to me at a time when I was testing my haiku wings.

"Step Into Sky" was written in 2001 and contains 100 of my earliest published haiku. In the introduction to it the famous Japanese haiku poet Ban'ya Natsuishi writes, "I imagine Sandbach to be a haijin (haiku poet) who lives in a cosmic world of poetry, and who calls the moon to the dry wash scattered with sand in the middle of North America so that he may talk with her."

Banya, you continue to help me to enter ever more deeply into that cosmic world. Thank you for the gift of your spirit.

To read some of Ban'ya Natsuishi's wonderful haiku you may go to a review of his book "A Future Waterfall" at http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/courses/globalSpring2006/RyneInmanOnBanyaNatsuishi.html

You can also go to http://www.modernhaiku.org/bookreviews/Natsuishi2006.html for another review of one of Natsuishi's books and more of his poetry.